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An in-joke is something which is only funny to those people who have a certain piece of knowledge or information. From a sociological point of view, in-jokes are used by groups to identify those who are Not-Us — anyone who not a member of the group is not likely to get the joke. In-jokes are a stock source of humor in niche comics or shows; like jokes about computer programming that can only be understood by technicians, jokes about a film that only make sense if you listened to the director's commentary, jokes about a country's political system or culture that only citizens of that place could ever laugh at. If you are in on the joke, these can be hilarious; if you aren't, then they get irritating quickly. Some creators cannot resist putting references or jokes that only they understand into their works. Usually, these are based on events and people from their childhoods, their families, and their working environments. Sometimes these In Jokes are explained later (usually on a DVD commentary, or in an interview), but sometimes they are never explained, leading to a lot of fan speculation regarding their meaning. Unlike a regular In-Joke, sometimes the only person who knows what a particular reference means (at least originally) is the creator who added it. Many a Development Gag also fits this. The extreme of this trope is when the creator himself has forgotten the meaning of the joke. Compare Trolling Creator, whose fans might understand the joke but only the creator is amused by it. |
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In Super Troopers, the name of one of the Local Cops is Rando, which was something the writers called people they didn't know "randoms" during college. Not a huge in-joke (as calling people randoms has been around for the last 10 years or so), but one nonetheless. | |
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Jason and the Argonauts: The skeletons' shields are decorated with images of monsters from Ray Harryhausen's previous movies. | |
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Desperate Housewives: 5th season finale episode "If It's Only In Your Head". Lynette is told she's pregnant and says, "Are you sure it's not cancer?" This was based on creator Marc Cherry's personal experience: when his mother was told by doctors in the early '80s that she was either pregnant or had cancer, she said, "God, I hope it's cancer." Bree's immediate response to learning that her son is gay is the same as Cherry's mother: "I'd love you even if you were a murderer." |
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: The character Station was an in-joke between the two screenwriters that came about during writing. After deleting a scene taking place in a police station, they noticed that they'd accidentally left the word "station" in the draft. Giddy on lack of sleep, the writers started saying "station" back and forth in funny voices and cracking up. They immortalized the joke by adding an alien to the story who only says his name, "Station." | |
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Angel: The "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate in the fifth season episode "A Hole In The World" is funny enough as it is, but it was based on a real argument Joss Whedon started in the writers' room that got way out of hand. He just wrote it on the chalkboard and came in later to find that the argument had effectively killed any work getting done. | |
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Gorilla, Interrupted: The scene where Rich Evans falls down a hillside through brambles is a reference to a nearly identical scene in another amateur film directed by cast member Jay Bauman. The scene where an alien dumps a whole can of Crystal Pepsi on its face for no explicable reason is an apparent dig at one of the actors, Garrett Gilchrist, who insisted on adding a number of scenes to the script that the director Mike Stoklasa found pointless. One of these added scenes, which was shot but cut out of the finished film, involved Gilchrist's character having soda dumped on his head. |
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In Merrily We Roll Along, Joe Josephson rejects a Franklin Shepard score on the grounds that "there's not a tune you can hum," adding, "I'll let you know when Stravinsky has a hit." The Igor Stravinsky comparison was made by George Abbott when he turned down the offer to produce West Side Story. | |
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The Villain: Director Hal Needham includes a couple of Smokey and the Bandit references, and this is the second film where Kirk Douglas's character owns a horse named Whiskey. | |
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In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, one of the phrases Stitch says is "Maka maka, sasa!" (meaning "This way, hurry!") Sasa is an affectionate nickname for Sa, the wife of executive producer of the series Jess Winfield, and "makamaka" is Hawaiian for "friend and host". Every year Sa hosts a luau party and signs the invitations with "Makamaka Sasa." | |
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In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Chloe gives Lexi a makeover so that he looks similar to Specter. In-universe, this is because Chloe made a character known as "The Specter of the Black Forest". The author's notes reveals that this is because she told a friend of hers that Specter had more good qualities than Simon (with loyalty being his biggest one). | |
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Homestuck recycles a lot of characters and themes from Andrew's more obscure work. For instance, Gamzee a monster clown serial killer is partially based off his little known and orphaned graphic novel series, Whistles. The character dynamic of the Kids, and the flavor of Homestuck in general, comes from Wizardy Herbert, an incomplete novel Andrew described as magical kids learning how to focus their powers and taking the piss out of it. The characters on the pages on Rose's wall are the concept art of that story. Likewise, there is a poster in Dave's room of two robot rappers, who later appear as minor characters Squarewave and Sawtooth. Andrew had an idea to write a rap music album based on them, but it also never came to fruition. A few moments in the comic are just incomprehensibly bizarre without knowing that they're in reaction to fans on the forums or social media freaking out about events in the comic. The infamous scene of the Author Avatar trying to kiss Rufio back to life was to tease fans freaking out over one character's murder of another, and the bizarre scene of a character's insane glee at being Caucasian and another character's Big "NO!" (due to having an actual skin tone in "trickster mode" instead of the monochrome white all other human children have) is a Take That! to fan controversy over what race the kids actually are (which has since been edited due to blowing up into its own controversy and case of Your Approval Fills Me with Shame. the page in question now has the character declaring "I feel PEACHY!"). |
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A Magilla Gorilla cartoon had Magilla and several men at an Army recruitment center joining the service. They conclude the oath with "So help me Hanna."note This expression predates the show, however. The classic Disney short "Cured Duck" has the insult machine using this expression when he has Donald Duck promise to "give [it his] attention, [his] whole attention, and nothing but [his] attention". | |
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System of a Down's "I-E-A-I-A-I-O" includes the lines "Meeting John at Dale's Jr. / winked an eye and point a finger, why?". As a child, drummer John Dolmayan had a chance meeting with David Hasselhoff in front of a liquor and convenience store called Dale's Jr.; When John exclaimed "Knight Rider!", Hasselhoff said "Hey, kid", winked and pointed his finger at him. John told the story to Serj Tankian, who wrote it into the lyrics. It sort of ties into the next line, which is a reference to the premise of Knight Rider ("a former cop, undercover / just got shot, now recovered"). | |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: The word "chippy", which gets used a lot, comes from some weird foreign porn Tim and Eric once saw. | |
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The X-Files loved this one: Chris Carter's best friend as a child was called Fox and his mother's maiden name is Mulder. Various other characters are also named after people the writers knew. Almost every time a date or number is mentioned it has some kind of significance (most commonly 1013/October 13th, Chris Carter's birthday, or 1121/November 21, his wife's). They even subverted it once by using the same number about five times in a single season - the number was completely meaningless but by this point, fans had been trained to look obsessively for the significance. |
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The Venture Brothers: Dean calls Orpheus's pendant a "Dracula trophy". The phrase was originally something overheard during childhood by one of the show's creators, and it stuck. | |
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One of the developers of EV Nova put his ex-boss in the game ... as a cargo drone with the subtitle "Incompetent". | |
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Halo: Some of the games, especially the first one, contained a ton of Shout-Out references to Bungie's older title Marathon which effortlessly go unnoticed by those who had never played their older games. The Bungie-era games also have plenty of references to the number 7. |
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Some of the games, especially the first one, contained a ton of Shout-Out references to Bungie's older title Marathon which effortlessly go unnoticed by those who had never played their older games. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: The radio episode "The Twin Orphans" features twin boys named Mike and Danny. Al Lewis, the show's writer, had twin boys named Mike and Danny. There were shout outs on other occasions as well, although never so prominently (i.e. "Babysitting for Three" and "New School TV Set") |
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The Mighty Boosh was named after something once said by a childhood friend of Noel Fielding (Vince): upon seeing the large curly hairstyle sported by Michael Fielding (Naboo) at the time, the foreign-accented childhood friend exclaimed: "You've got a mighty bush!" | |
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Star Trek: In the original proposal for Star Trek: The Original Series that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the Enterprise was to be commanded by Robert M. April. The name also turned up in two episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel that Roddenberry wrote in The '50s. The number 47 appears frequently throughout the franchise when an arbitrary number is needed. This originates with The 47 Society from Pomona College, the alma mater of one of the writers for Star Trek: The Next Generation. |
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"Jalapena" as an exclamation in Disney's Gargoyles. Keith David had known someone who used it that way and improvised during a recording session. It stuck. | |
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David Lowery and Mark Linkous once had a conversation about things that an artist could do on an album that would cause listeners to think they'd gone insane- Lowery suggested mentioning monkeys in every song on an album. Subsequently, Forever by Cracker had four separate songs that mentioned monkeys in the lyrics, usually in the form of Recycled Lyrics about something or someone being "guarded by monkeys". Forever itself even had the Working Title of Guarded By Monkeys, until the label asked for a more marketable title. | |
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In Lexx, Xev's home planet B3K took its name from the production company's Halifax postal code. | |
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From Lost, the song "You All Everybody" and its only known lyrics ("you all everybody, acting like these stupid people wearing expensive clothes") came from an inside joke among the writers. One of them had seen someone use the phrase on a talk show many years earlier. "Geronimo Jackson" is a band that is mentioned several times throughout the series. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse swear the band was a legitimate one from the 70s that no one remembers, but the pair are known for making outrageous claims and jokes. However, they are unusually adamant that Geronimo Jackson was a real band. Several independent "investigations" (searches of music databases, copyright libraries, etc) have turned up no evidence Geronimo Jackson ever existed. |
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The film 2010 features a cover of Time magazine with the American president and Soviet premier. The former is Arthur C. Clarke, and the latter is Stanley Kubrick. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In one episode, when the Film of the Week shows people looting a house, Tom Servo quips "Hey, she's got Mike's guitar!". At the time the episode was filmed, the real Michael J. Nelson had just been through a bad breakup where his ex-girlfriend took his guitar with her when she moved out. | |
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In the original proposal for Star Trek: The Original Series that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the Enterprise was to be commanded by Robert M. April. The name also turned up in two episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel that Roddenberry wrote in The '50s. | |
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Futurama: Al Gore is used as constant joke fodder for two reasons: at the time of the show's original run, people thought he was humorless, and because his daughter wrote for the series (and she wanted people to know she got her sense of humor from somewhere). In one episode, Leela is upset and tears one half of a Kleenex to wipe her tears away. On the DVD commentary for the episode, writers said that while everyone assumed it was a joke because of her one eye, it was actually poking fun at executive producer and writer David X. Cohen, who would always rip tissue paper in half to save money. |
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In Wayne's World, Wayne's Psycho Ex-Girlfriend tries to patch up their relationship by giving him a gun rack, something for which he has no use since, as he points out, he doesn't even own a single gun. This was based on what a (not-so-psycho) ex-girlfriend of Mike Myers tried on him. | |
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In qxlkbh, specifically qxlkbh 91, the zvillains'rg lair has an alembic tapering off to a hand as a reference to a similar emoji in a nomic some of the creators participate in. | |
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The guy Cave Johnson fires at the beginning of the Portal 2 Game Mod Portal Stories: Mel for misspelling "station" as "statoion" is named Chris. This is a reference to how level designer Chris Onorati, better known as TMast98, accidentally made this spelling mistake on a sign, which started a joke of the team "firing" him whenever he made a mistake. This is referenced in the credits, when Chris's drawing has the word "statoion" with the extra "o" crossed out. Also, in Chris's office at the beginning of Chapter 3, the whiteboard says, "Chris if you erase this board again I'll make sure you get FIRED!" | |
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In the Twice Upon an Age series, it's noted that Hawke has a mabari warhound named Rikki. The author always gives this name to the mabari companion when playing Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age II - it's the name of her parents' dog. | |
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On Harley Quinn (2019), Lake Bell, who voices Poison Ivy, also voices recurring police officer Cheryl, who has a southern accent. This is a nod to the comics where Ivy originally had a southern accent. | |
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Stranger Things: The series contains several references to the Duffer Brothers' home state of North Carolina, particularly the Durham area where they grew up. Examples include the Eno River, Jordan Lake, roads named "Mt. Sinai," "Cornwallis," and "Kerley," and a neighborhood named "Loch Nora", after the real Lochn'ora neighborhood. Dustin fakes a phone call regarding the missing cat with a Mr. McCorkle, the name of the Duffers' childhood next-door neighbor. |
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On the walls of the subway in Cry of Fear, you can find posters for a movie called Intimidated by Abnormalities. | |
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The "You call this a X?" from Romantically Apocalyptic. | |
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TimberWolf: In "Self Helplessness" when Thomas blows out the first bubble after chewing on a ball of alphabet bubble gum, all the floating letters inside it spell out "C H U C K J O N E S". | |
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Blackadder Goes Forth: In "General Hospital", Blackadder reveals that he figured out Nurse Mary was a German spy when he referenced the three great universities (Oxford, Cambridge, and Hull) and she failed to notice the odd one out. General Melchett responds "Quite — Oxford's a complete dump!", with Blackadder giving a nonplussed reaction. Stephen Fry (Melchett) attended Cambridge, which has had a centuries-long rivalry with Oxford, Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder)'s alma matter. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Fires of Pompeii": Latin students everywhere stand a chance of recognizing Caecilius, Quintus and Metella — they're from the widely-used Cambridge Latin Course textbook series. "Time Heist": One of the treasure items in Karabraxos' private vault, visible in the background of several important shots, is a child's cardboard model of a rocket ship. In the making-of documentary, director Douglas McKinnon explains that it belongs to him, was a gift from his daughter, and is one of his own most treasured possessions. |
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Folk singer-songwriter John Stewart included quotes from someone named Oliver Makin in the liner notes of two of his albums (Sunstorm, Wingless Angels). Makin was supposedly "a poet and short story writer from Kansas who died in 1909", but Stewart fans haven't been able to locate any of Makin's works. The fact that the quotes conveniently just happen to include Title Drops for the albums in question pretty much confirms that Makin=Stewart. | |
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Roughly half the characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus were named Arthur, Ken, or Eric. | |
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Doctor in Love: The book offered to Dr. Hare by the librarian is The Captain's Table by Richard Gordon, who wrote the books the Doctor... Series is based on. | |
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Captain Robert T. April appears in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter-Clock Incident." In the original proposal for Star Trek: The Original Series that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the Enterprise was to be commanded by Robert M. April. | |
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Homestar Runner: The phrase "Kick it out, Behan" was something the creator's Mom said at track meets when he was a kid. The name Homestar Runner comes from an incident in school when a friend of The Brothers Chaps note James Huggins of of Montreal tried to imitate an old-timey baseball announcer but didn't know much about baseball. In the process, he garbled some terms and called a player a "homestar runner". |
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In Doom: The cheat code "iddqd" was named after a fraternity one of the developers formed in college. "idspispopd" is a reference to a Usenet post suggesting them to name their next game Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. |
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Superchunk were originally called Chunk, because of how their drummer Chuck Garrison's name was misspelled in the phone book - the "Super-" prefix was added when they learned of a jazz group that was also called Chunk. Garrison was credited as Chunk on several singles and their first album, at least giving a small hint to the listener. Nowadays their name just comes off as a Word Salad Title, particularly because the original inspiration for it hasn't even been in the band for the last two decades. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Road to Rupert", while Meg is driving him, Peter demands to watch SpongeBob SquarePants, and the Campfire Song Song from the episode "The Camping Episode" plays. The director of the episode, Dan Povenmire, worked on early episodes of SpongeBob and wrote the Campfire Song Song. | |
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In "Orange Lights", the tie-in comic book for The Conduit, the mailing address for Conspiracy Theorist Gordon Wells is actually the address of developer High Voltage Software. | |
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From It's Walky!, Walky's catchphrase "Wiigii" was inspired by a typo of the author's when he was trying to type "Woohoo" and his right hand was off to the left. | |
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Nickelback was named for a phrase Chad Kroeger kept hearing when he visited a friend at Starbucks: "Here's your nickel back." It was $1.95 day, and customers kept paying with two-dollar coins. | |
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The number 47 appears frequently throughout the franchise when an arbitrary number is needed. This originates with The 47 Society from Pomona College, the alma mater of one of the writers for Star Trek: The Next Generation. | |
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